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Death by Architecture Architecture Competitions and Articles Competition / International Tropical Architecture Design Competition 2016 / BCA, SIA and SGBC Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:37:33Z 2016-05-18T22:37:33Z Launched in 2011, the ITAD Competition aims to reach out to students – the leaders of tomorrow, in sustainable developments and raise awareness in the areas of sustainability and mitigating climate change. The ITAD Competition encourages students to explore vast realms of knowledge revolving around sustainability, and provides a platform for them to showcase their innovative sustainable design ideas.
Register by: 06-10-2016 / Submit by: 07-08-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:37:33Z Competition / The Invisible Skyline / PINarchitecture Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:35:40Z 2016-05-18T22:35:40Z The Invisible Skyline /// Skylines are symbols for the cities above which they hover. Yet, the majority of buildings in cities lie well below the pinnacles of skyscrapers. Are skylines appropriate billboards for cities when most of population lives, works, and shops in the bottom few stories? What if a skyline, while still physically there, was invisible above ten stories? How does the function of a skyline change when it can no longer be seen? What might be the functional or political purpose of hiding a skyline? How might architecture, technology, or natural phenomena hide such a large mass of buildings? What happens when a skyline becomes invisible? Participants are asked to submit concepts that hide a skyline from view, rather than physically remove it. Submissions may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. Submission Details /// Entries may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. All graphics and text must be contained within a 4 inch diameter circle with white beyond. A submission is a single 300dpi JPG. Templates are on the website. Send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com and include your name, city, state, and country in the e-mail. International entries are welcome.
Register by: 05-31-2016 / Submit by: 05-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:35:40Z Competition / Best Home Competition / 1 Habitat 1 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:35:21Z 2016-05-18T22:35:21Z
The Best Home Competition takes place once a year in cities around the world. It is a two stage Ideas and design-built competition with the aim of identifying innovative proposals for new free standing Residential houses that will be built immediately.The competition is both a race that pushes the boundaries of the concept of house design and an opportunity of exposure.

The competition is open to anyone worldwide including designers, architects, landscape architects, artists, engineers, and students and all professionals in areas related to architecture. We invite you to create innovative solutions to tackle the challenges presented, with the winning designs demonstrating a high degree of expression and creativity in fulfilling new ideas for housing, addressing innovation, sustainability, efficiency, and aesthetic. The entire concept of the competition revolves around the selection among cutting edge, futuristic residential home designs that reflect and are adapted to modern days, those that includes elements of comfort, energy balance, aesthetic, practicability, and efficiency, all geared towards a futuristic concept of residential home building.

Register by: 06-06-2016 / Submit by: 06-18-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:35:21Z Competition / 2016: A HOUSE FOR ... / OPENGAP Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:34:08Z 2016-05-18T22:34:08Z Fourth edition of this international competition organized by OPENGAP, inviting participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing, inciting them to work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and in the relation of identity between the customer and the project. Each participant or team can propose the client for designing a house, a person of interest and inspiration for the project. This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people. The proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 4MB each.
Register by: 09-06-2016 / Submit by: 09-14-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:34:08Z Competition / Nupath Sculpture Competition / Nuopath Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:33:02Z 2016-05-18T22:33:02Z We see opportunities for collaboration for art and architecture students and NuPath. We would love to engage the students in a potential competition project of creating sculptures to the name of those who were part of NuPath. The project is to design a single sculpture or installation that could be dynamically multiplied on site. The outdoor space is located on the back green space of the building, located in 147 New Boston Street in Woburn, MA and it is currently being planned as the Outdoor Sculpture Park . With the innovative and creative ideas from art and architecture students, we can help memorialize people that were part of the NuPath family. NuPath is a company that would like to build a relationship with the artist or designer. The prizes include a $1,000 award and a feature on NuPath's website. The idea also can have the possibility of being built in later phases.
Register by: 06-30-2016 / Submit by: 06-30-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:33:02Z Competition / Global Student Competition: Responsible Future Architecture / Archi-Europe Group Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:31:40Z 2016-05-18T22:31:40Z Dear students, The international competition for students in architecture, Archi-World® Academy III 2015-2017, is back on track. The topic this year is "Responsible Future Architecture", and again students can win a traineeship in one of the 12 prestigious offices managed by our jury members. Be part of this extraordinary opportunity : register to Archi-World® Academy and send us your best student projects and write with Archi-World® Academy the first pages of your professional life ! The deadline for presenting projects is 30 September 2016. Winners will be invited to attend the awarding ceremony taking place on 18 January 2017 in Munich during the International exhibition BAU in the presence of the jury members. Complete information about Archi-World® Academy is available on http://www.awacademy.org/ Good Luck!!!
Register by: 09-30-2016 / Submit by: 09-30-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:31:40Z Competition / Room18 / Dom?s International Review of Architecture Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:30:16Z 2016-05-18T22:30:16Z Room18 Design Competition has as its subject the designing of the interior of a bedroom in a Greek four-star urban hotel of a total area of 18 – 24m2. We are looking for ways of creatively re-interpreting and transcending the formal specifications in a response to the likely wishes and expectations of the contemporary traveller.
Register by: 06-27-2016 / Submit by: 07-04-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:30:16Z Competition / 24H competition 12th Edition - Utopia / Ideas Forward Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:29:34Z 2016-05-18T22:29:34Z
Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes.

The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative. In an era of globalization where communication was dominated by the technological revolution, there is the need to rethink the cities and how Man relates in a global World as well as rethink the economic, social and cultural patterns of contemporary societies. The young creatives and thinkers are a precious commodity that we value a lot and so we want to give them voice, because we believe in their value and their ideas and because together we can change the world.

AIM OF THE COMPETITION - 24H

A space where the time limit is used to stimulate your creativity. This competition proposes give responses in 24H to the social problems, climate changes, humanitarian causes and sociologic problems of the contemporary societies. Commitment, perseverance, inspiration and hard work are the necessary bases to develop a proposal that meets the premises that will be released regularly in the brief of the competition. We challenge you to prove your talent in 24 hours! There are a period of registration on the competition, when it end, started the 24H competition! You have 24H to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained on a brief that you only know on the same day that start competition. Take the risk! FRAMEWORK UTOPIA A perfect construction shouldn't remain imperfect just because it does not take place. The Utopia of life is more about the lack of action than the lack of will. Wills are easy. Utopias are complex but not impossible. Everything has a beginning, like a house has its first brick, and the great utopia of the world is to imagine the walls, way before they are built; Is to fall in love with a garden, having just seen a single flower. Is to imagine a picture, by only have seen a reflex of it and believe that what you see is the absolute truth. We are all Utopia, within the untouchable horizon.

Register by: 06-04-2016 / Submit by: 06-05-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:29:34Z Competition / IT'S LIQUID ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDENTS AWARD 2016 / It's LIQUID Group Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:27:46Z 2016-05-18T22:27:46Z
IT'S LIQUID ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AWARD 2016

International students are invited to present their architectural and product design projects to have the chance to be featured on It's LIQUID website, presented in BORDERS 2016, It's Liquid Art and Architecture Festival and to take part in the first workshop of VAA – Venice Architecture Academy in May 2016, in the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Projects could be realized and not realized, about all sides of Architecture and Design, from interior design to urban planning, from residential and commercial spaces to public spaces, from the spoon to the city. All students are invited to take part in the festival submitting their projects following these guidelines: – Board 01: project concept and plan/plans – Board 02: front views, sections and perspective drawings – Board 03: HD Renderings – Project description (in English and Word Format, max 3 pages) – Project credits (project name, student's name/surname, school, CV/biography and e-mail address) Boards' size is A3 (420 mm × 594 mm), 200 dpi. Boards must be submitted in .jpg format and wide not less than 1600 px.

All projects can be presented with many boards (max of 10 boards), containing at least the requested drawings and renderings. Video-architecture works, photos of installations and scale models can be submitted too. Submissions can be the work of an individual or a group and there is no age limit. Interdisciplinary teams are also encouraged to enter the competition.

The project must be sent via Wetransfer to: email@example.com It's LIQUID will select all works received and will publish the selected ones on its official Facebook page on April 22, 2016 in order to be voted! As soon as the images of your projects are uploaded on It's LIQUID Group Facebook page, follow these steps to win the Contest: 1. like It's LIQUID Group Facebook page 2. share the contest link on your profile 3. invite your friends to like It's LIQUID Group Facebook page and to like your works Projects with the greater number of "like" will be the PUBLIC VOTE winners. Winning projects need to reach a minimum of 100 likes. Public vote will be closed on May 1, 2016. Winners will be announced on May 9, 2016. We will send a newsletter to announce the PUBLIC VOTE top 3 and the SELECTED WINNER. Good luck and make sure you and your fans complete all the steps. We will check if the winners and their fans followed all the steps. The organization has the right to moderate and confirm the final public vote score.

Register by: 04-15-2016 / Submit by: 04-15-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:27:46Z Competition / 2016 Spring Student Design Competition / GRAPHISOFT Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:25:33Z 2016-05-18T22:25:33Z GRAPHISOFT North America, makers of ARCHICAD, noted architectural firm, Kitchen & Associates and AIA West Jersey, a section of AIA-NJ invite you to answer that question. This year Philadelphia hosts the AIA National Convention, continuing its long tradition of serving as a colorful backdrop to dozens of concerts, conventions, sporting events and festivals annually. With so many wonderful venues in one historic place – the city lacks a way to welcome those various event attendees in a cohesive and effective manner. Your challenge? Position Philadelphia's rich history in front of the millions of tourists who visit it annually by using ARCHICAD to design a temporary, mobile visitor center from shipping containers. You can use as many containers as you want. Make them portable, self-contained and interactive. Give the containers a way to respond to the various sites in which it could be situated. A total of $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners.
Register by: 04-30-2016 / Submit by: 04-30-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:25:33Z Competition / d3 Natural Systems 2016 / d3 New York Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:25:02Z 2016-05-18T22:25:02Z
The study of natural systems offers architects and designers significant potential as a platform for alternative, ecologically-performative design strategies. The d3 Natural Systems competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, urbanism, interiors, and designed objects.

Established in 2009, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is an established voice in alternative architecture and one of the most notable awards in speculative, performance-based design. It recognizes exemplary ideas that redefine design as an ecological project through the implementation of advanced technologies, materials, and social interventions that engage adaptability, globalization, and emergence. P

ublished in London-based Wiley-Blackwell AD journal's theme issue "The New Pastoralism: Landscape into Architecture" as a leading example of environmental innovation, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition is a critical voice in ecological architecture and design. The 2016 competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows. By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function--bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, material conditions, and products may be realized.

Emergence suggests that design expression requires purpose beyond formal assumption and aesthetic experimentation itself. Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Natural Systems competition assumes that architecture and design not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with buildings, spaces, and objects. Submissions must be environmentally responsible while advancing inventive conceptual solutions. Although proposals should be technologically feasible, they may suggest fantastical visions of a sustainable global future. The d3 Natural Systems competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner--from large-scale master planning endeavors and individual building concepts, to notions of interior detail and product design.

Although there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, the d3 Natural Systems competition welcomes work of all scales from design disciplines including, but not limited to, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental design, interior architecture, interior design, industrial design, interaction design, furniture design, and fashion design.

Register by: 08-01-2016 / Submit by: 08-16-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:25:02Z Competition / Solo Una Scatola_Only a Box / La Citt? Nuda Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:23:22Z 2016-05-18T22:23:22Z
After the successful past Editions La Città Nuda The Naked City presents, in collaboration with Moso International e TAG Talent Garden Torino, the new international contest focalised on the "architecture in a box". This edition, organized by the Architects Giulia Desogus, Valerio Fogliati and Ambra Seghesio, will be concluded with a ehibition in Turin, in the neighbourhood Porta Palazzo.

THE COMPETITION: The competition requires the participants to create a small dynamic and multifunctional space to be set up in a 50 mq (530 square feet). The architectural ideas presented and their construction process will have to be innovative, linked to the concepts of speed of construction, temporariness, low cost of execution, manageability and functionality. The concept behind the competition is "architecture in a box", the redesign of a space in a neutral existing container. It's like an empty box: the project needs to be set up within this spacial constraint but without forgetting how its relationships with the urban context around can influence its internal dynamics. A white box, placed, drawn on a piece of paper.

THE SITE Porta Palazzo is an historical neighbourhood of Turin, it has always been the market area with noumerous small craft - commercial - services businesses, once the heart of the neighbourhood, do no longer run and they left only empty spaces. The goal of this competition is to provide a pilot project which would give some indications to transform this vacant spaces in something new and riqualified active on the real estate market.

CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT https://lacittanuda.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/concorso-citta-nuda_2016__eng.pdf

Register by: 05-31-2016 / Submit by: 05-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:23:22Z Competition / BONS SONS ?16 - Eira Lounge Pavilion / Ideas Forward and Bons Sons Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:22:13Z 2016-05-18T22:22:13Z Title Eira Lounge Pavilion - 10 years of BONS SONS Sinopse In 2016, the BONS SONS celebrates its 10th anniversary. They are 10 years history of Portuguese music, which include the 192 bands that have gone through your poster. The BONS SONS, over the last 6 editions, has been to position itself as a national reference at various levels: cultural, local development, community life and the environmental, economic, social and territorial sustainability. This has been an ongoing process of construction where the BONS SONS stands as a true agent of change. The sound projects presented on the Stage Eira make use of an energy and vitality of youth characteristics, associating also symbolically fertility and germination of the old threshing floors, reflected in the musical creativity that feature. 10 years of Portuguese music, that we celebrate with this edition of BONS SONS, living both freshness and innovation brought by bands like the community life, that promotes, extols and perpetuates. Objective Construction of an ephemeral installation – " Eira Lounge Pavilion "
Register by: 05-15-2016 / Submit by: 05-15-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:22:13Z Competition / Distribute Hackathon / NBBJ / Time Inc / Power2Fly Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:20:58Z 2016-05-18T22:20:58Z What is Distribute hack ? Time Inc, NBBJ, and PowerToFly have partnered to host a global hackathon in Seattle, New York, and London. Teams will compete to invent the future of the distributed workplace; building products to encourage collaboration, connection, and culture flow. Prizes will include in-kind tech donation and an installation of the winning work. Three Challenges: 1. Create virtual water-cooler technology that allows distributed teams to connect in meaningful ways. 2. Design experiences that allow culture to flow across locations by creating globally accessible collaborative environments. 3. Provide a personal connection to remote workers by giving them a sense of place and purpose.
Register by: 04-09-2016 / Submit by: 04-17-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:20:58Z Competition / Reimagining Port Royal / Eastern Town Partnership Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:19:34Z 2016-05-18T22:19:34Z
Port Royal and the Eastern Town sit within the Devon seaside town of Sidmouth with a population of 12,569. The competition site encompasses an area that has been much contested locally, with several local community groups having been involved with, or producing schemes for, alternative visions for this part of the town. The proposed site includes a variety of stakeholders, and land in multiple ownership, including but not limited to Devon County Council, East Devon District Council, South West Water, and individual local landowners. The future of this strategic local asset is unclear, and during the last decade the site has become somewhat maligned.

This competition aims to inculcate new thinking for this part of the south-west, not just architecturally, but also economically, socially, and environmentally. The site encompasses an area facing several strategic challenges; economic austerity, an aging population, nuclearisation resulting from the pull of urban centres, rising tides, and coastal erosion. Once rival only to sister town Brighton, Sidmouth was an exclusive Regency resort typified by impressive views, landscapes, and Georgian architecture, could Sidmouth use the redevelopment of its Eastern Town to redefine itself?

This open architectural competition seeks entries from Architects, Designers, Students of related disciplines, and other associated professionals to develop proposals for an area of 8 square kilometres to the east of the town. The proposals could cover the entire area, or form a series of interventions within the site boundary. A jury will produce a short-list of 5 entries, which will then be exhibited and put to a popular vote.

Register by: 06-24-2016 / Submit by: 06-24-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:19:34Z Competition / The Inverted Corner / PINarchitecture Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:18:11Z 2016-05-18T22:18:11Z The Inverted Corner /// A corner defines the convergence of non-parallel forms. Within every corner there are two distinct and often opposing conditions. A corner's interior tends to unify space, while a corner's exterior can divide space along its edge. What if the inside and outside of a corner suddenly switched roles, trading characteristics and functions? What stimuli might trigger a corner to dynamically invert on itself? How is the spatial relationship around a corner affected by this inversion? What mechanism might enable an interior corner to flip to the exterior and vice versa? How does this concept apply to different types of junctures? That happens when a corner inverts? Participants are asked to consider different corners types, including walls, ceilings, roofs, landscape, etc. Submissions may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. Submission Details /// Entries may be conceptual, technical, and/or artistic. All graphics and text must be contained within a 4 inch diameter circle with white beyond. A submission is a single 300dpi JPG. Templates are on the website. Send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com and include your name, city, state, and country in the e-mail. International entries are welcome.
Register by: 03-31-2016 / Submit by: 03-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:18:11Z Competition / The Light Emphasizes / Venice Design Week Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:17:48Z 2016-05-18T22:17:48Z Concept: The light emphasizes: objects, environments, interior design. It is an exhibition dedicated to the planning of natural and artificial light for the environments and interiors. A special section is dedicated to the light systems and to scenography.
Register by: 05-27-2016 / Submit by: 05-27-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:17:48Z Competition / ARCHITECT's 10th Annual R+D Awards Call for Entries! / ARCHITECT magazine Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:15:37Z 2016-05-18T22:15:37Z
ARCHITECT magazine is now accepting entries for its 10th Annual R+D Awards! We would be grateful if you could share our competition details with your students and faculty. And, for the very first time, full-time students and academic faculty are eligible for a reduced registration fee! Are you revolutionizing the process and product of architecture? ARCHITECT magazine wants to celebrate the groundbreaking research, materials, and technologies that are advancing the building industry at every scale—from design strategies and building systems to products, software, and fabrication methods. Entries will be judged for their documented innovation in fabrication, installation, user engagement, and performance as well as their potential to advance the aesthetic, environmental, and social value of architecture.

Categories Awards will be given in three categories, reflecting different stages in the research and development process. • Prototype, for entries that are in the experimental and testing phase. • Production, for entries that are currently available for use. • Application, for entries that are being used in a novel manner on a project.

Register by: 04-20-2016 / Submit by: 04-20-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:15:37Z Competition / The International Competition of Masterplan and Space/Facility Design for Nodeul Dream Island / Seoul Metropolitan Government Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:14:13Z 2016-05-18T22:14:13Z Seoul Metropolitan Government holds an international competition in order to establish a Music-led cultural complex until 2018, in which domestic and oversea specialists from various fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, etc. can participate. Seoul Metropolitan Government established a program for present including necessary facilities and the scale considering citizen participation and publicity for the realization of proposed operation program. Additional program would be prepared for the future. It is expected that creative and various design would be proposed through this competition. Project Outline Eligibility : All professionals in architecture, landscape, and urban design can enter in this competition. In the case of joint application, a team can have up to five(5) members at maximum.
Register by: 05-06-2016 / Submit by: 05-27-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:14:13Z Competition / AIA UK Excellence in Design Awards / AIA UK Chapter Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:13:33Z 2016-05-18T22:13:33Z 2016 AIA UK CHAPTER EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN AWARDS PROGRAMME For over 20 years, The American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Excellence in Design Awards programme has proven highly valued by architects as they confer trans-Atlantic recognition for design excellence. Professional entries are sought from architects, industrial designers, urban planners, landscape architects and interior designers based in Britain, and from around the world for completed projects in the UK. The awards programme recognises and honours excellence in design in three categories: - Professional - Young Architect - Student The winners will be announced at the Awards Gala on Monday 18th April held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Register by: 03-24-2016 / Submit by: 03-24-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:13:33Z Competition / 24H competition 11th edition - shakespeare / Ideas Forward Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:13:03Z 2016-05-18T22:13:03Z Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and English actor, recognized as the greatest writer for theater in the world. He was born and died on the same day, April 23, and had an incomplete school education, having been taken out of school at a young age, due to weak economic conditions of their parents. He arrived in London poor and friendless, until be greeted by a theater company that took him. He took care of the horses of the spectators, helped the stage and acted. By the end of the XX century they were produced over 400 films based on the works of Shakespeare, and the satellites of the planet Uranus were baptized with names of characters of his plays: Miranda, Cordelia, Ophelia, Desdemona, Titania and Rosalinda. Shakespeare would become personage of its own life, acting on a stage of the world size, speaking a thousand languages and immortalizing respect for art that charged. In Epitaph, was left written and confessed: "Good friend, for Jesus, abstains you to desecrate the body buried here. Blessed be the man that respects these stones, and cursed what to remove my bones. "
Register by: 04-09-2016 / Submit by: 04-10-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:13:03Z Competition / The Secret Life of Buildings: A CALL FOR OBJECTS / The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Center for American Architecture and Design Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:12:15Z 2016-05-18T22:12:15Z This is a call for works of art or design that (i) might fairly be called 'objects' by the nascent philosophies of Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, and that (ii) will throw light on architecture as a peculiar set of objects, phenomena, ideas, relations, connections, skills, materials, obligations, and operations. A selection of twenty of these Objects—all physical and all, whether singular or configurations of smaller objects, falling within the four Parameters set out below—will be exhibited for two weeks around a three-day symposium to be staged by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin in October 2016 called "The Secret Life of Buildings." OBJECTS ... Parameter 1 ...that need nothing else and no one else; that are oblivious to where they are or what is made of them or how they were made, or what is done with (or to) them…OR that depend for their sense, and perhaps very existence, on exactly where they are, the company they keep, what is said about them, how they were made, and what is done with (or to) them; Parameter 2 ...that have secrets, capacities, tendencies, or desires; that are "tips of icebergs;" that "listen to different drummers;" that receive or send feeds to other places, people, objects, dimensions…AND/OR that have evident, unique, and remarkable qualities all their own…OR that have no qualities at all and ask who you are; Parameter 3 ...that point to or exemplify peculiarly architectural components, elements, phenomena, and processes without themselves being fragments or models (i.e. abstract miniatures) of them; Parameter 4 ...that weigh less than thirty pounds and occupy less than fifteen cubic feet shipped, AND can be drilled into and/or be mounted (specify indoors or outdoors) by clamps that are themselves clamped to a steel pole (specify orientation). The support for each Object will be custom provided by the organizers.* SELECTION PROCESS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES: The selection process will take place in two Stages. Stage One asks for a maximum of ten PDF images of models and/or drawings of the proposed Object, a one-page written description of it, and a brief resume of the designer/artist(s), submitted digitally by midnight May 2, 2016 to firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Object Entry' in the subject line. Approximately forty of these will be selected to move on to Stage Two. (Entrants will be notified by May 15) On June 1, 2016, twenty will be asked to realize their Objects and have them delivered to Austin (address below) by September 30, 2016. Stage One Jurors: Prof. Michael Benedikt, Assist. Prof. Kory Bieg, Assist. Prof. Clay Odom. Stage Two Jurors: Dr. Graham Harman, Dr. Albena Yaneva, Dr. Jorge Otero-Pailos, Dr. Ian Bogost, Dr. Levi Bryant, Dr. Timothy Morton, Prof. Michael Benedikt, Assist. Prof. Kory Bieg. FEES and SUBSIDIES Artist/designers submitting a Proposal to Stage One must accompany their submission with a non-refundable Fee of $50 USD here. Artist/designers selected for Exhibition will each receive a subsidy of up to $250 to help cover shipping costs, minus half the cost of shipping the Objects back to the artists, if they so request and if their shipping materials are re-usable. *Objects may be minimally modified by the organizers for the purposes of mounting, and by possible wear and tear. PUBLICATION An edited selection of the photographs, drawings, and descriptions of the proposals and Objects submitted for exhibition will appear fully attributed in CENTER 21: The Secret Life of Buildings scheduled to be published in the Fall of 2017. Submission of material to this competition grants permission to CAAD to publish it in print and online at any time. ELIGIBILITY All artists, sculptors, designers, architects, and philosophers over 18 years of age are invited to enter, professional and student, U.S. and international. Entries may be from individuals or teams.
Register by: 05-02-2016 / Submit by: 05-02-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:12:15Z Competition / LES MENUIRES REHAB / ARCHtopics commissioned competitions Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:08:50Z 2016-05-18T22:08:50Z INTRODUCTION Located at 1850 m of altitude, Les Menuires is a great place for athletes as well as for families. Even though the majority of the activities are related to ski, they also have other types of activities. In the heart of Olympic Saboya, is located the ski resort Les Menuires that belongs to the zone known as the 3 valleys, the biggest ski resort in the world. Fully communicated by slopes and lifts it is accessible with a single pass: 200 lifts, 600 km of tracks, and multiple links between Les Menuires, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, Val Thorens, La Tania and Courchavel. Les Menuires was a planned ' ex novo ' territory through an architectural competition held by a group of architects and has been working as a first class ski resort for 50 years. However, throughout the years society´s concerns and the way of living have changed drastically and have led authorities to rethink a change. Exactly 50 year later, Les Menuires faces the intervention of their buildings so they can continue developing. Current standards of comfort make it imperative to rehabilitate the existing structures. How should Les Menuires be in the next 50 years? PROPOSAL As part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the French destination Les Menuires, ARCHtopics together with the city hall of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, organized an ideas competition open to all faculties and School of Architecture of the world, for the creation of a collective use space in the center area. The central zone of Les Menuires is occupied by a building of more than 300 meters long called ¨la Croisette¨. This great building is the main commercial hub of the valley and contains practically all of the uses and services of the station. Built in 1966, la Croisette present multiple deficiencies in the commercial area, for this reason it needs an intervention and a comprehensive rehabilitation. The architecture competition proposes two ways for the commercial hub that rediscovers the splendor of Les Menuires in the XXI century. A: Rehabilitation of la Croisette B: New development (Complimentary to the existent)
Register by: 05-15-2016 / Submit by: 05-30-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:08:50Z Competition / One & Only Laundry Appliance - design contest by Electrolux / Electrolux on Desall.com Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:08:07Z 2016-05-18T22:08:07Z Electrolux and Desall.com invite you to take part in a new double-phase contest to invent and design an innovative ALL-IN-ONE laundry appliance for optimising the time and space usually needed for laundry, while offering a highly customised solution for all processes involved. For more info: http://bit.ly/ElectroluxDesignContest Timeline Submission phase: 29th February - 31st May 2016 Community vote: 31st May - 07th June 2016 Client vote: from 07th June 2016 Total awards €6000 Participation is free of charge and open to all creative people (at least 18 years old).
Register by: 05-31-2016 / Submit by: 05-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:08:07Z Competition / McMaster University's Greenhouse Competition / McMaster University Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:07:48Z 2016-05-18T22:07:48Z McMaster University seeks ideas to transform a tropical greenhouse into an inviting campus feature, potentially linked to a gathering space such as an atrium or coffeehouse. McMaster University has a 100 sq m tropical greenhouse with a distinctive collection that draws many visitors. The greenhouse is 50 years old, and is to be moved to a more central location beside the Life Sciences Building (LSB). This move provides an opportunity to build a more iconic and inviting structure to enhance community engagement and enhance the campus environment. To build support for this venture, we are seeking designs that capture the potential of the site and enhance the profile of the tropical collection. The competition is open from Feb 15 to March 31, 2016. Winners will be announced online April 27, 2016.
Register by: 03-31-2016 / Submit by: 03-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:07:48Z Competition / Cities in Asia Summer Programme: Studio SEL-SHA, July 6-26 / The University of Hong Kong Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:07:15Z 2016-05-18T22:07:15Z Dear All, We are launching the 2016 Cities in Asia Summer Programme, and we would like to seek your support in disseminating this information on your website. Should you need to paste in a blurb on your website, please use the following paragraph: This credit-bearing HKU course was established in 2010 to focus on urgent architectural and urban issues confronting Asian cities today. It is an immersive course designed to expose students to daily learning activities including lectures, seminars, studio crits, field work, firm visits, and design reviews. The nature of work ranges from critical reading of texts, individual assignments, to design and research collaborations. Students will get to interact with professors, researchers, critical practices, think tanks and various local stakeholders in the making of Seoul and Shanghai. This programme welcomes all university students and recent graduates with an interest in the Asian city. Deadline for enrolment is April 30, 2016, and the early bird enrolment is March 18, 2016. For more details about eligibility and application, please visit: http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/cities-in-asia/. Please do not hesitate to contact the programme secretary Olivia Lai for queries: email@example.com.
Register by: 04-30-2016 / Submit by: 04-30-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:07:15Z Competition / Konstrukt | Design and Architecture Awards 2016 / SRMB Steel Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:06:48Z 2016-05-18T22:06:48Z KONSTRUKT is a competitive assembly that endeavours to recognize and honour niche aesthetic design to simple functional innovation, from Student to Architect or Civil engineer. It is their first ever chance in Eastern India to showcase their skills and get accolades from the stalwarts.
Register by: 03-16-2016 / Submit by: 03-16-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-05-18T22:06:48Z Competition / PARIS PAVILION: THE ART OF PEACE / Archasm Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:36:23Z 2016-04-04T19:36:23Z
The city of Paris is rightfully termed as 'the cultural capital of the world' because of its rich and diverse ethos and character. Paris has been the artistic epicentre of the world since renaissance, inspiring many artists, philosophers, writers and architects to innovate and break the shackles of resistance. The city was home to great revolutionaries like Picasso, Miro, Modigliani, Voltaire and Corbusier. But one of the most tolerant cities of the world was shook by recent terror attacks that sent shockwaves around the world.

The most serious problem of the 21st century besides climate change has been terrorism, aggression and wars in the name of religion, political mileage, energy resources and economic factors like money and drugs etc. Millions of people have been brutally murdered and executed all these years, while a significant number are still dying every day to satisfy the whims and fancies of fanatic, radical and greedy leaders and organisations. Attacks and conflicts in Paris, Iraq, Syria, New York, Afghanistan, Mumbai, Ukraine, Madrid, Beirut, Nigeria, Bali etc. have changed and altered the political and cultural landscape in which architects and urbanists operate.

The aim of this competition is to design a 'Peace Pavilion' in Paris that would exhibit the virtues of hope and tolerance, translated through the language of art and architecture. The pavilion should be a free standing temporary structure that can host a variety of activities and exhibitions. •The pavilion should stimulate and educate people about the virtues of social and religious harmony. The pavilion should serve as a place for personal reflection, a thinking place, where the visitors can contemplate and introspect. •The competition seeks the inclusion of art, in any form, pure or translated, within the pavilion.

The participants are free to create their content and function of the pavilion, which could depict situations or events, showcase the horrors and trauma of people and inspire them to stop the menace of terror and promote peace. •The pavilion should of a temporary or semi-permanent nature that would constructed of durable and easy-to-maintain materials, and shall comply with building codes. The aesthetic quality, materiality, volume and form should add vitality, beauty and a sense of identity to the space, paying respect to the history and contextuality of the surrounding. •The pavilion should become an important landmark and reference point for the inhabitants and visitors of the city, a space that is integrated in the natural environment and that is flexible enough to adapt to a wide variety of activities in and around the structure. The participants are asked to design a pavilion in the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower, in the area outlined by Avenue Joseph Bouvard and Avenue Charles Risler.

Register by: 05-30-2016 / Submit by: 05-31-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:36:23Z Competition / Forefront Fellowship / Urban Design Forum Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:34:19Z 2016-04-04T19:34:19Z
Forefront is a new initiative led by the Urban Design Forum dedicated to cultivating emerging leaders in urban design, development and policy. Beginning in 2016, the Forum will invite 20 individuals under the age of 40 each year to become Forefront Fellows. Forefront Fellows will be invited to participate in dedicated conversations and site visits in New York City around the theme of Urban Experience Design. Fellows will meet monthly, share projects and receive feedback from their peers and established leaders in the field.

In addition, Forefront Fellows will enjoy two free years of Forum membership, with benefits such as invitations to exclusive roundtables, tours and dinners in New York City; a monthly bulletin of Fellows' news and updates; and unparalleled access to our global network of leading urbanists. Our inaugural program, Urban Experience Design, explores how new civic technologies are transforming the management and operations of the public realm. In monthly programs, participants will explore evolving technological advancements that aim to improve urban life.

Forefront Fellows will confront questions such as: How can we use technology to create tangible improvements to the experience of the city? How can big data be applied to build a more dynamic, equitable, and resilient city? Can we build a Smart City without adopting top down or proprietary approaches?

Register by: 03-10-2016 / Submit by: 03-10-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:34:19Z Competition / 100 Year Commeration Ireland National Civic Space / Celtcia Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:32:50Z 2016-04-04T19:32:50Z
Celtcia has announced a three part architectural design competition regarding College Green in Dublin, Ireland. To ensure the best architectural outcomes are achieved Celtcia are offering generous competition to try and find the best result for one of the most important architecture and urban design set pieces in history.

This competition is open to the public. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a civic space that we can be proud of as a national civic space," said Cuffe. "We've got to get it right."

Register by: 03-13-2016 / Submit by: 03-17-2016
 Death by Architecture 2016-04-04T19:32:50Z Article / National World War I Memorial Stage 2 Finalists Announced Death by Architecture 2015-08-28T00:00:00Z 2015-08-28T00:00:00Z
Five concepts have been selected to proceed to Stage II for the National World War 1 Memorial design competition.

In the next stage of the competition, the five finalists will work in consultation with the Commission, public agencies with ultimate approval authority over the design, and other stakeholders to further develop and refine their initial design concepts. At the end of Stage II the jury will make recommendations to the World War I Commission, which expects to announce a winning design concept in January 2016.

Public comment is welcome.

http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/stage-ii-finalists.html

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 Death by Architecture 2015-08-28T00:00:00Z Article / Pinup 2014 Design Competition by Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2014-05-11T00:00:00Z 2014-05-11T00:00:00Z

Pinup 2014 invites students and young professionals to submit a collection of their studio, 3d printed or un-built work comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The competition is free to all entrants.

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we create, and connect on a daily basis. For design, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every entrant can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers.

The Competition poses the following questions: What are the aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

Pinup 2014 was assembled by designers, professors and students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia and amongst today's emerging talent. The competition is supported by ArchDaily, Shapeways, the AIAS, IIDA, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. The guest jury includes participants from FastCompany, ArchDaily, Design Milk, Interior Design Magazine, Core77 and Columbia GSAPP.

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/pinup2014

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 Death by Architecture 2014-05-11T00:00:00Z Article / ENR California Announces "Top 20 Under 40" by Engineering News Record Death by Architecture 2012-12-29T00:00:00Z 2012-12-29T00:00:00Z
(As posted by Bruce Buckley on ENR California Blog, 12/20/2012)

ENR California is proud to announce the winners of its annual Top 20 Under 40 competition, which celebrates the excellence of young design and construction professionals around the state.

Now in its third year, our Top 20 Under 40 contest drew its largest collection of entries yet. An independent jury pored over the entries, judging candidates on the basis of their career experience; industry leadership; community service; and other factors. Winners will appear in the February 11, 2013, edition of ENR California.

Congratulations to our winners, listed below in alphabetical order.

Kevin Albanese

Joseph J. Albanese, Inc.

Hafsa Burt

HB+A Architects

Christopher Bush

Parsons

Joseph (Joe) Carbajal

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Wil Carson

Michael Maltzan Architecture

Mario Cipresso

Studio Shift, Inc.

Gray Dougherty

Dougherty + Dougherty Architects LLP

Dana Fetrow

Spire Consulting Group, LLC

Casey D. Graham

SA Healy/Impregilo

Greg Hadsell

HDR Architecture, Inc.

Marceid DeAngelo Hatcher

Turner Construction Company

Chad Kennedy

O'Dell Engineering

Todd Kohli

AECOM

Justin Mikecz

HMC Architects

Neil Nehmens

SSC Construction, Inc.

Terriann Nohilly

Turner Construction Company

Marnie O'Brien Primmer

Mobility 21

James Seegert

Modern Building, Inc.

Josh Stinson

Nordic PCL Construction, Inc.

Jeffrey Vaglio

Enclos Corp

For more information:

ENR California

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 Death by Architecture 2012-12-29T00:00:00Z Article / EyeTime 2012 Competition Winners Announced by The Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-12-10T00:00:00Z 2012-12-10T00:00:00Z
On behalf of the competition organizers, collaborators and supporters, the Morpholio Project is proud to congratulate the EyeTime 2012 Winners. EyeTime 2012 was assembled as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. "It was inspiring to review " said Aurelie Jezequel, Editor-in-Chief of Resource Magazine and "There was such a vast array of styles and creative techniques employed" said Jessica Lum of PetaPixel. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of entrants who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

EyeTime 2012 would also like to give a special thanks to the ICP, APA, ADC, AIAS, AIGA, NYIP, Resource Magazine, Death By Architecture, Photograph Magazine, Bustler, Archinect, Photography Blog, PetaPixel, The PhotoContest, Photocompete, Wallpaper Magazine, Wired Magazine and the incredible Jury who supported the work. This year's jury included Aurelie Jezequel and Adam Sherwin of Resource Magazine, Jessica Lum of PetaPixel, Kristen Fortier of Wired Magazine, Billy Cunningham of the ICP, and Pei-Ru Keh of Wallpaper Magazine. To view the Winners, Honor Awards and Honorable Mentions, please visit :

http://mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/eyetime2012

Images shown here in order:

Dean West - In Pieces

Simon Chang - Ashura

Zuliandi Abdul Azli - Analog Wave

Anna Pietrzak - Moments of Movement Pt. 2

Nicholai Go - Super

Gerald Haselwanter - Las Vegas Up

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 Death by Architecture 2012-12-10T00:00:00Z Article / EyeTime 2012 Photo Competition Finalists Announced by Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-11-21T00:00:00Z 2012-11-21T00:00:00Z
On behalf of the competition organizers, collaborators and supporters, the Morpholio Project congratulates the EyeTime 2012: Finalists. EyeTime 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of entrants who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

The EyeTime 2012: Winner(s) will be selected by the Jury as well as public competition "EyeTime". To view the finalists and contribute your "EyeTime" now for your favorite entrant, please visit the EyeTime site:

http://bit.ly/P8kstT

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 Death by Architecture 2012-11-21T00:00:00Z Article / Support GREAT SPACES the Web Series by Indiegogo Death by Architecture 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z
FROM THE GROUP AT GREAT SPACES:

"Great Spaces delves into the colorful history of design and showcases an offbeat celebration of the art of showing spaces, featuring super-spaces, extreme stunts and challenges, spaces reviews and celebrity interviews, as well as the eccentric adventures of its hosts with Great Space's customary wit and humor. Hosted by design lover Alexi Panos, architect Delaine Isaac, architectural enthusiast Oheri Otobo and UK architect Ben Nother. Great Spaces explores the history of America and abroad, one space at a time.

ABOUT THE WEB SERIES:

The most exciting factor about the web series medium is its ongoing interaction with you as the audience. You, the viewer, can effect the series as it progresses. We want to take this to the next level. Television. And bring you into the process by showing not just how we make films but why we make them.

Along with the 6 episodes (18 spaces) we will be releasing in 2013, Great Spaces will be uploading new spaces and behind-the-scenes videos every week from this fall of 2012 until the first season wraps. To stay up to date subscribe to our YouTube channel GreatSpacesTV for new space clips and facebook for behind the scenes clips.

ABOUT YOUR MONEY:

Right now, we are gearing up for season one and we need your help in order to continue production. With the funds we raise, we will be able to purchase necessary equipment, complete new website development, and support our incredibly hardworking and dedicated production team.

Your payment is processed through Amazon (and is as easy as buying a CD, Book or DVD from Amazon.com). Every penny goes directly towards production and contributor rewards. Before we can start shooting, we need to cover a myriad of production and post-production expenses.

Up to this point, Great Spaces has been completely self-funded. We're doing this because we love design and travel, talking about it and sharing it with other people. It's been awesome -- but the only way to keep it going without sponsors or real advertising money - is through Indiegogo.

Thank you so much for your support and we hope that the stories from each space will inspire you as much as they will inspired us."

http://igg.me/p/277594?a=966795

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 Death by Architecture 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z Article / Call for Papers: Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design by IIJournal Death by Architecture 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
CALL FOR PAPERS:

autonomous identities

fall 2012 issue I _ call for submissions

As emergent design specializations, spatial design and interior architecture have repositioned the way that we conceive, perceive, and experience our built environment. Autonomous Identities, ii journal's inaugural issue, seeks scholarly design-research, visual compositions, and work that challenges disciplinary specificity. Spatial environments are informed by not only our perception of space, but also through their social engagement, performance engineering, and graphic integration. New awarenesses have converged to re-imagine the design and construction of spatial and temporal interventions, as well as the corporeal and theoretical conditions of architectural environments and performance events.

Interior architecture and spatial design are poised to transform the design disciplines, and thus, Autonomous Identities is searching to identify tomorrow's spatial precedents. Both disciplines offer the potential to claim new territory by operating at the intersection of previously discrete knowledge bases. Thus, interior-related theory, praxis, and practice have assumed a collective crisis of identity. In this issue, ii is collecting work which has the potential to blur the traditional boundaries of the design by identifying provocative new spatial territories. The journal endeavors to gather exemplary projects that reveal interdisciplinary approaches to research and 'making' skills as they apply to interiors, light-mobile-architectures, and designed objects. Autonomous Identities will reveal contemporary developments in design education and practice relative to the exploration of emerging materials and technologies. The issue will highlight experimentation, theory, research, speculation, and innovation through its focus on collectively re-thinking 'space'.

Autonomous Identities will feature cross-disciplinary work that offers an alternative perspective on space, materiality, and tectonics. Work may include, but is not limited to, spatial design, graphic design, architecture, industrial design, engineering, fashion, performance, film, and multi-media, as well as the environmental and social sciences.

schedule

15 August 2012 _ worldwide call announced

01 October 2012 _ paper submission deadline

15 October 2012 _ paper selections announced

01 November 2012 _ final edits due

01 December 2012 _ typeset confirmed

15 January 2013 _ journal printed

ABOUT:

ii is the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design.

In a global, complex, and networked society, interior architecture and its praxis are experiencing unprecedented change. Theoretical investigations, design-research, and alternative explorations blend previously discrete disciplines within an emerging blurred territory. The International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design investigates this new territory by requesting scholarship, design research, and projects that ask bold questions and propose innovative responses. Founded and stewarded by the Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and published by the University of Houston, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design.

General inquiries may be sent to: firstname.lastname@example.com

Visit: http://www.iijournal.org/

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 Death by Architecture 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Article / Launch of d3:dialog>assemble Volume One by d3 publications Death by Architecture 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
d3 is pleased to announce the launch of the first volume of d3:dialog: >assemble

d3 publications offer global perspectives on architecture, culture, technology, and production. >assemble will debut at the Beijing International Book Fair and Frankfurt International Book Fair in Fall 2012. d3 publications may be purchased on on-line in Europe and North America.

ASSEMBLE

d3:dialog, International Journal of Architecture + Design

editors, Gregory Marinic & Mary-Jo Schlachter

320 pages in full color:

http://www.amazon.com/assemble-dialog-international-journal-architecture/dp/0615652700/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345180402&sr=8-1&keywords=d3%3Adialog

Investigating contemporary issues in architecture, urbanism, and design, d3 views collaboration across the disciplines as a catalyst of change, and thus, seeks to actively build a global network of hybridized creative communities. d3 situates itself in this role out of the conviction that an expanded discourse in architecture fosters learning, creativity, and innovation.

d3:dialog is an international journal of contemporary architecture, urbanism, interiors, and design. Providing an open platform for global exchange, the journal places particular emphasis on design-research as a formal, social, and technological investigation. d3:dialog is a hybrid publication series that combines the depth and format of a book, with the flexibility of a thematic journal. Published by New York-based d3, each issue explores a focused aspect of current architectural theory and production.

>assemble, the first volume of the d3:dialog series, offers an illustrated journey through current practices in avant-garde architecture and design. Casting its lens upon the relationship between information and production the journal asks:

How does an enhanced complicity between author and audience impact the design of urban spaces, architecture, interiors, and objects?

Compiling twenty-seven notable works gathered from around the world, >assemble opens a window onto the expanding forces that shape the contemporary built environment. By doing so, it proposes that framing an alternative perspective on architecture offers limitless unanticipated opportunities.

INTRODUCTION

Gregory Marinic & Mary-Jo Schlachter

The cities and buildings where we live represent temporal manifestations of mass, space, time, and memory. With the advent of digital methodologies, these places may now be conceived more fluidly in terms of information. This shift from analog means to digital systems of conceptual design and material production has allowed a more profound interaction between designer and audience to develop. An inability to separate the real from the digital has emerged, whereby these methods have converged to form part of the same process.

How can the development of 21st century urban space and architecture be re-conceptualized, controlled, and created? How do such environments grow, transition, and transform over time? How has the integration of digital conceptualization tools with physical matter produced increasingly fluid architectural forms, flexible spaces, and transformative assemblies?

http://www.d3space.org/dialog/

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 Death by Architecture 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Article / EyeTime 2012: Photo Competition by The Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z
EyeTime 2012 invites students and young professionals or enthusiasts to submit a collection of their photography comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The competition is free to all entrants.

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we create, and connect on a daily basis. For photography, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every entrant can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as artists.

As the paradigm shift from analog to digital is paired with the emergence of platforms for the digital consumption of images, photography inherently reassess its methods, media and subjects, in order to establish a dialogue with an audience whose visual abilities are increasingly expanded by technology. Thus, this competition challenges you to confront the world with your photography. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your work. You are the artist, the curator and the critic. EyeTime 2012 poses the following questions: How are your photos perceived? What does it take for an image to make a difference within the continuous overflow of data and information we currently inhabit? How can images impact evolving forms of media in order to engage audiences with their message? What is your message?

Eyetime 2012 was assembled by photographers, professors and students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. The competition is supported by the ICP (International Center of Photography), APA (American Photographic Artist), ADC (Art Directors Club), and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. The guest jury includes participants from Wired magazine, Wallpaper magazine, PetaPixel, Resource magazine and the ICP. Sixteen finalists will be selected in each category: Emerging Talent and Future Voices. We look forward to your participation.

More information at: http://mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/eyetime2012

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 Death by Architecture 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z Article / Pinup2012: Student Competition Winners by Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z
June 04, 2012

On behalf of the AIAS, ADC and AIGA, the Morpholio Project, along with Death By Architecture, congratulates the Pinup 2012: Student Competition Winners and Honorable Mentions. Pinup 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the

research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of students who were bold enough to confront

the world with their voice.

To view the Winners and Honorable Mentions, please download the competition app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/morpholio/id484413042?ls=1&mt=8

Winners:

Anthony Shung Yiu Ko

AA School of Architecture

Jonathan Choe

Illinois Institute of Technology

Tetyana Serafin

Norwalk Community College CT

Anna Pietrzak

University of Cincinnati

Honorable Mentions:

Jason Khoo

Singapore Polytechnic

Ivorin Vrkas

School of Design Zagreb Croatia

Matilda Schuman

Lund School of Architecture

Junsheng Fu

Tsinghua SA

Ziba Esmaeilian

SciArc

Tom Wilz

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Anesta Iwan

California College of the Arts

Dean Austin

Deakin Uni Australia

Chunxiao Xu

Tsinghua SA

Coralee Brin

University of Calgary

Hiromu Noir

TU Berlin

Trent Christensen

NYIT School of Architecture

Competition Statement:

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every designer can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers.

PinUp 2012 poses the following questions: What are the standards and aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a

new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant(s) will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Competition Site:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

High Res Images:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/press

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 Death by Architecture 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z Article / Pinup2012: Student Competition Finalists Announced by Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z
Pinup 2012: Student Competition Finalists Announced

May 05, 2012

On behalf of the AIAS, ADC and AIGA, the Morpholio Project, along with Death By Architecture, congratulates the Pinup 2012: Student Competition Finalists. Pinup 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of students who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

The Pinup 2012: Student Winner will be selected by public "EyeTime" as the most viewed collection on May 30th 2012. To view the finalists and contribute your "EyeTime" now for your favorite entrant, please download the competition app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/morpholio/id484413042?ls=1&mt=8

Finalists:

Anthony Shung Yiu Ko

AA School of Architecture

Jonathan Choe

Illinois Institute of Technology

Jason Khoo

Singapore Polytechnic

Ivorin Vrkas

School of Design Zagreb Croatia

Matilda Schuman

Lund School of Architecture

Junsheng Fu

Tsinghua SA

Ziba Esmaeilian

SciArc

Tom Wilz

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Anesta Iwan

California College of the Arts

Dean Austin

Deakin Uni Australia

Chunxiao Xu

Tsinghua SA

Coralee Brin

University of Calgary

Tetyana Serafin

Norwalk Community College CT

Hiromu Noir

TU Berlin

Anna Pietrzak

University of Cincinnati

Trent Christensen

NYIT School of Architecture

Competition Statement:

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every designer can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers.

PinUp 2012 poses the following questions: What are the standards and aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Competition Site:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

High Res Images:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/press

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 Death by Architecture 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z Article / "Going Viral: Blurred Borders" Discussion & Exhibition, May 21st by AIANY Global Dialogues Death by Architecture 2012-04-30T00:00:00Z 2012-04-30T00:00:00Z
The AIANY Global Dialogues committee has dedicated 2012 to "uncovered connections" with the intention to investigate issues that are similarly impacting multiple regions, cultures and individuals. Going Viral explores the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we practice. How do we shape a global conversation? How are we changing the relationships between academia and the profession? What is the impact of hyper information sharing and critique? Throughout the evening, the topics of communication, research, collaboration, and data distribution will be addressed and debated.

Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toru Hasegawa of Morpholio and Columbia University, Carlo Aiello of eVolo, and David Basulto with David Assael of ArchDaily will come together for a lecture and panel discussion moderated by Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief of Architect. In addition, selected game changing blogs and websites will be exhibited as Voices Going Viral on the evening of the event. Please join us at the NY Center for Architecture on May 21st at 6:00 pm and online at http://aianyglobaldialogues.blogspot.com/ for further information.

Date: May 21, 2012, 6:00pm

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 Laguardia Place, New York, NY 10012, (212) 358-6133

RSVP: Appreciated http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=4440

*AIA Continuing Education Units available

Voices Going Viral Exhibition:

Apartment Therapy created by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan and Janel Laban

www.apartmenttherapy.com

ArchDaily created by David Basulto and David Assael

www.archdaily.com

Archidose created by John Hill

archidose.blogspot.com

Archinect created by Paul Petrunia

archinect.com

Architect's Newspaper created by William Menking

www.archpaper.com

ArchitectureMNP created by Ryan McClain, co-founded by Kiye Apreala

architecture.myninjaplease.com

Architizer created by Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and Benjamin Prosky

www.architizer.com

Archive of Affinities created by Andrew Kovacs

archiveofaffinities.tumblr.com

BLDGBLOG created by Geoff Manaugh

bldgblog.blogspot.com

Blurr created by Ahmed Elhusseiny

www.blurrblog.com

But Does It Float created by Folkert Gorter, Atley Kasky, & Will Schofield

butdoesitfloat.com

Cooking Architecture created by Claire Shafer and Juan Jofre

www.cookingarchitecture.com

The Cool Hunter created by Bill Tikos

www.thecoolhunter.net

Core 77 created by Eric Ludlum, Stuart Constantine, & Allan Chochinov

core77.com

Culture Now created by Abby Suckle, Ann Marie Baranowski, Susan Chin, Diana Pardue, and Nina Rappaport

www.culturenow.org

Curbed created by Lockhart Steele

ny.curbed.com

Death by Architecture created by Mario Cipresso

www.deathbyarchitecture.com

DesignBoom created by Birgit Lohmann & Massimo Mini

www.designboom.com

Design Sponge created by Grace Bonney

www.designsponge.com

DesignReform created by CASE

designreform.net

Dezeen created by Marcus Fairs

www.dezeen.com

e-Oculus created by the AIA New York Chapter

www.aiany.org/eOCULUS

eVolo created by Carlo Aiello

www.evolo.us

Inhabitat blog created by Jill Fehrenbacher

inhabitat.com

Landscape + Urbanism created by Jason King

landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com

Mammoth created by Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes

m.ammoth.us/blog

Morpholio created by Mark Collins, Toru Hasegawa, & Anna Kenoff

mymorpholio.com

Places Journal online created by Nancy Levinson, Harrison Fraker, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut

places.designobserver.com

Post Post created by David Jaubert

www.postpost.co

Project created by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, Jonah Rowen, & Emmett Zeifman

projectjournal.org

Credits:

Global Dialogue Chairs: Bruce E. Fisher AIA and Jeffrey A. Kenoff AIA

Event Co-Chairs: Elie Gamburg, Diane Chehab

Design and Curatorial Team: James Kehl, Rebecca Pasternack, Ciara Seymour, Sarah E. Smith, Andy Vann

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 Death by Architecture 2012-04-30T00:00:00Z Article / Pinup 2012: Student Competition Deadline Extended by Morpholio Project Death by Architecture 2012-04-09T00:00:00Z 2012-04-09T00:00:00Z
As media partner to the Pinup 2012 Student Competition, we would like to encourage all students to take advantage of the extended deadlines for the competition. You now have until April 30, 2012 to submit up to nine images of your work on the Morpholio Project's new mobile platform. See the call for submissions below:

Call for Submissions: Pinup 2012 invites students of all design disciplines to submit a collection of their work comprised of up to nine images. The competition is free to all students. The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do.

The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every designer can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers. PinUp 2012 poses the following questions: What are the standards and aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic. PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Go to the competition website:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

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 Death by Architecture 2012-04-09T00:00:00Z Article / Tomohiro Hata Wins WAN House of the Year 2012 by WAN Awards 2012 Death by Architecture 2012-03-02T00:00:00Z 2012-03-02T00:00:00Z
Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates' Complex House in Nagoya, Japan wins the WAN House of the Year Award 2012

The Complex House was described as a serious and modest design but the jury also liked it for its playfulness with light and space and the site itself. It proved to be very popular with the judges, each of them admiring its beauty, balance and intelligence. They were delighted to award it the WAN House of the Year 2012 Award.

The WAN House of the Year Award celebrates the best in international architecture for single-family houses. Jurors for this award come from an array of highly respected establishments across a range of fields. The jury included: Sarah Wigglesworth, Director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, David Levitt, Chairman of the Housing Group of the RIBA, Philip Marsh, Director at DRMM and remote judge Tom Kundig, Director at Olson Kundig Architects.The client family of this house needed many small rooms within a relatively small space. So, the architects firstly examined the possibility of a row of small, deep rooms. After the concept was fixed, the architects considered different widths depending on suitable scales for each of the rooms. Then they edited the composition of the sections.

The completed house in Nagoya has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions. This alternating arrangement creates a series of triangular windows on the first floor of the two-storey residence. The exterior is clad with metal sheets in standing seam fashion, a technique characterised by slightly overlapped parallel strips. There is an enclosed courtyard and the rooms on the ground floor 'melt' together or overlap each other and are integrated within the communal family space.

The resulting home is a sensitive house that takes the interaction of the family into consideration. It balances the need for a family to be together but also respects and allows for individual personalities and their desire for private spaces. This sensitive, beautiful and serious piece of architecture was greatly admired by all the judges and was selected as winner beating an admirable shortlist that included the Stone House in Luberon Valley, France by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect. The Stone house was also greatly admired and was awarded a "highly commended" title in recognition of the strength of the entry.

TOMOHIRO HATA ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES

http://www.hata-archi.com/

WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/

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 Death by Architecture 2012-03-02T00:00:00Z Article / ENYA The Harlem Edge Competition Winners Announced by Emerging New York Architects Death by Architecture 2012-02-24T00:00:00Z 2012-02-24T00:00:00Z
PRESS RELEASE

ENYA Announces Winners of

The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections Competition

February 23, 2012. The Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Committee of the AIA NY Chapter is proud to announce the winners of its fifth biennial design ideas competition, The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections. One hundred seventy-eight (178) teams and individuals registered for the competition and more than ninety-eight (98) entries from sixteen (16) countries were submitted for judging. The winning entries will be exhibited at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, this July and be published in a competition catalog. In coordination with the exhibition, ENYA will be hosting a symposium to discuss design issues related to the winning entries and possibilities for the future development of the site and its neighboring community. The Harlem Edge is presented as part of FutureNow, the 2012 AIA New York Chapter Presidential Theme.

ENYA Prize, $5000: Sym'bio'pia

Ting Chin and Yan Wang, Linearscape Architecture, New York, NY, USA

2nd Prize, $2500: The Hudson Exchange

Eliza Higgins, Cyrus Patell, Chris Starkey, and Andrea Vittadini, Brooklyn, NY, USA

3rd Prize, $1000: Harlem Harvest

Ryan Doyle, Guido Elgueta, and Tyler Caine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Student Prize, $1000: Stairway to Harlem

Daniel Mowery, Student of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA

Honorable Mentions:

Continuum, by Nasiq Khan, and Scott Brandi, Bayside, NY, USA

Subaqueous Promenade, by Doyoung Oh, and Jaemin Ha, London, United Kingdom/Boston, MA, USA

New Marine Transfer Station, by Yashar Ghasemkhani, Arash Mesbah, and Pooneh Sadrimanesh, New York, NY, USA

Land Over Water Agro-Pavilion, by Michael C. Kilroy, and Jonathan Sampson, Students of Architecture, University of New Mexico, USA

Greenhouse Transformer, by Dongwoo Yim, and Rafael Luna, PRAUD, Boston, MA, USA

The jury selected the winning entries on February 11, 2012 at the Center of Architecture. The jury included: Emily Abruzzo, AIA, LEED AP, Partner, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects LLC, and Winner of 2012 New Practices New York; Meta Brunzema, Principal, Meta Brunzema Architect PC; Dr. Dickson D. Despommier, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University; Louise Harpman, Clinical Associate Professor | Architecture, Urban Design, Sustainability, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Michael Marrella, Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning, New York City Department of City Planning; Jesse Reiser, Principal, Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture PC; and Keith VanDerSys, Principal, PEG office of landscape + architecture, and Winner of the 2010 ENYA Prize.

More information about the jury can be found here: http://www.enyacompetitions.org/awardsjury.html.

The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition explored the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located on the Hudson River at 135th Street. The site offers the opportunity to engage the local Harlem community with the waterfront, and echoes recent efforts by NYC to reclaim the waterfront for non-industrial use, as included Department of City Planning in its Vision 2020, the Comprehensive Waterfront Action Plan for New York City.

For more information about the competition visit the website:

www.enyacompetitions.org

Press contact: Nicole Friedman, 212.358.6126, email@example.com

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-24T00:00:00Z Article / 3XN Wins Competition for University Building in Uppsala, Sweden by 3XN Death by Architecture 2012-02-23T00:00:00Z 2012-02-23T00:00:00Z
Press Release:

The new university building unites the past and the future by extending the lines from the historical surroundings into an innovative structure pointing towards future study and work life

Uppsala University has more than 500 years' of history and thus is one of Sweden's most established institutions, complete with traditions and an esteemed regard. At the same time, the University is known as a modern institution for world class research and higher education. Thus, the vision for the new University Building is to bridge the past and the future by creating synergy between location, expression and layout.

The building builds a bridge between past and future. Several lines from the historic surroundings are also present in the new building, that through its flexible and open spaces will encourage new ways of working, studying and collaborating, explains Jan Ammundsen, Partner and Head of Competition in 3XN.

The 13,000 m2 university building include a number of sustainable features such as natural ventilation and a facade design protecting from direct solar heat gain, while allowing plenty of daylight inside. Although the building has a light and transparent expression its compact structure minimizes the surface resulting in environmental and operational savings.

Contact information

Didde Fuhr Pedersen

Public Relations Manager

email@example.com

+45 3264 2310 / 6155 4610

3XN / facebook / LinkedIn

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-23T00:00:00Z Article / Opening Reception "Building a Brick" - Cody Lusby - February 18, 2012 by Design Matters Gallery Los Angeles Death by Architecture 2012-02-17T00:00:00Z 2012-02-17T00:00:00Z
PRESS RELEASE

Cody Lusby

"Building a Brick"

February 18-March 14th

Opening Reception

February 18th, 2012

7:00-9:00 PM

Design Matters is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Cody Lusby. Design Matters challenged Lusby to create a body of work that relates to architecture, and the process of building, which resulted in the conception of "Building a Brick." This body of work acknowledges the final result, whether it's the Disney Music Hall or the Sydney Opera house, but focuses on those who enable the realization of those icons. The architects and designer are highly celebrated within our culture, while the framer, electrician and plumber who all used their hands to create the icon are forgotten. Once construction is complete, those workers are often unable to gain entrance into what was once their workspace- unless they buy a ticket, full price of course. With the state of the economy, and the high rate of unemployed construction workers it seems appropriate to celebrate their role in realizing a creative vision. Ultimately, Lusby's investigation of the builder allows us to see the ordinary, as extraordinary.

Lusby was born in Portland, Oregon in 1978, then raised in Southern California. He refined his talent at the Orange County High School of the Arts, and subsequently received a scholarship to attend Laguna College of Art and Design, where he received his BFA in painting and drawing. In his work, Lusby ultilizes a mix of oil and aerosol paint, and collage to create his narrative portraiture.

For further press information and images please contact:

Design Matters firstname.lastname@example.com

+1 310 841 6423

Design Matters, 11527 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064

Wed-Fri 11-6

Sat 1-5, or by appointment

http://designmattersla.com

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-17T00:00:00Z Article / eVolo Skyscrapers by Aiello, Aldridge, Deville, Solt, Lee Death by Architecture 2012-02-16T00:00:00Z 2012-02-16T00:00:00Z
Established in 2006, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture. The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities.

Over the last six years, an international panel of renowned architects, engineers, and city planners have reviewed more than 4,000 projects submitted from 168 countries around the world. Participants include professional architects and designers, as well as students and artists. This book is the compilation of 300 outstanding projects selected for their innovative concepts that challenge the way we understand architecture and their relationship with the natural and built environments.

The projects have been organized in six chapters that describe the current position and the future of vertical architecture and urbanism. The first chapter, Technological Advances, is an investigation on the use of digital tools and computing fabrication. Ecological Urbanism explores sustainable systems, including new materials and clean energy generation processes to achieve zero-net-energy buildings. Projects that analyze the reconfiguration of existing cities and the colonization of new environments, such as underwater cities and floating habitats, are part of New Frontiers. The improvement of our way of living is the topic of the fourth chapter, Social Solutions, which is a collection of ideas that respond to social, cultural, and economic problems. A more experimental approach to architectural design is exposed in Morphotectonic Aesthetics, with proposals that use fields of data and self-regulating systems to respond to internal and external stimuli -the results are fascinating explorations of function and form. Finally, Urban Theories and Strategies is a group of projects that establish new methods to alleviate the major problems of the contemporary city, including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure, and the exponential increase of inhabitants.

The eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, debate, and development of avant-garde architectural design in the 21st century. eVolo is committed to stimulating the imagination of designers around the world thinkers that envision the future of our cities and a new way of life.

http://www.evolo.us/

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-16T00:00:00Z Article / P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S : NYC Book Launch & Symposium Feb. 9th, 2012 by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich Death by Architecture 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S : "EMBEDDED"

Jeffrey Inaba, John McMorrough, Marcelo Spina, Jesse Reiser, David Ruy, Michael Meredith and Mark Foster Gage

An event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S' new book, Embedded brings together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility.

EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S' long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others. Co-directed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, this research and collaborative-based practice seeks to move between digital and material expressions. Having gained worldwide recognition for its inventive approach to design and architecture that fuses advanced computation with an extended understanding of form, tectonics and materials, what sets P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S apart is not only its overt ambition to materialization but the quality and extent of realized work. The book includes a collection of more than twenty projects and writings by Spina and Huljich, with contributing essays by Todd Gannon, Marcelyn Gow and John McMorrough.

Organized by P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Los Angeles

Thursday February 9th 6.30 to 8.30pm

Studio-X NYC

180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014

www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/newyork

firstname.lastname@example.com

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z Article / School 4 Burma Design Competition Winners by Building Trust Intl. Death by Architecture 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z
Building Trust International announce 'School 4 Burma Design Competition' Winners

Building Trust International are delighted to announce that designers Amadeo Bennetta and Daniel LaRossa, of Berkeley, California have won the School 4 Burma Design Competition.

The winning design, for a modular school for migrant and refugee children in the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot, beat entries from all over the world as the competition generated progressive, contemporary design solutions. Over 800 designers and academic institutions expressed interest.

Winner Amadeo Bennetta said: "We are thrilled to have been selected and we're enthusiastic about seeing this project become a reality by continuing to refine the original design into a real, feasible and deployable building."

As the Building Trust International project now moves from conception to the planning and fabrication phase, the charity plans to work closely with the Kwe Ka Baung School, community leaders and other aid agencies in the area to ensure that the development of the design continues with their input.

David Cole, founding partner of Building Trust International said, "We would like to thank all those who took part. The standard of design entries that we received was incredible. We have the funding to develop the winning design, but we are now also looking for funding partners for a number of entries that we believe could be used to help other schools in the region. The competition has been a great success and highlights the key role that architects and designers have in tackling global issues."

The winning team submitted a proposal that expressed a high level of flexibility responding well to the brief. The design utilizes an adaptable framework that balances prefabricated structural elements with locally crafted, modular, bamboo panels. By creating entirely flat-packed components, BURMA [RE]FRAMED can be rapidly reassembled from a flatbed truck into a courtyard school, a single building or even as independent multi-use units. By reconsidering the restrictions of land ownership into an opportunity for flexible community space, BURMA [RE]FRAMED acts as a local/global bridge providing at-risk communities with a physical space around which the population can learn, grow and thrive.

The student category winners, Ms.Gauri Satam and Mr.Tejesh Patil from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, India, used the basic design principles of anthropometric/scale along with simple striking colours naturally creating a welcoming feel towards a learning institution for young minds.

Building Trust International is a non profit organisation offering design assistance to communities and individuals in need. Building Trust International assesses areas in need, finds sustainable, economical aid solutions and ultimately provides buildings and infrastructure. These core actions have blossomed into advocating and educating on the principles of socially aware design, providing an accessible resource on humanitarian design projects and providing a structure for the crossover of information between design professionals.

For more details please visit Building Trust International website:

www.buildingtrustinternational.org

Building Trust International is a charity registered in England and Wales (1142338)

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z Article / Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form by Thom Mayne Death by Architecture 2012-02-02T00:00:00Z 2012-02-02T00:00:00Z
Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form takes a critical look at twelve large-scale, urban projects executed over the last ten years by Morphosis Architects and is the first such time in which the firm articulates the urban methodologies implemented that have historically been inherent in their work. In order to make explicit the complex processes employed and demystify the resulting complex forms and spatial conditions that result, each project is decoded through text and images to explain the work in its simplest terms.

Each of the twelve projects is defined through four individual strains of urban production: context, program, green space, and infrastructure which establish the project's gestalt. You'll appreciate that the book is not rendering-heavy, rather it is populated with extremely clear and well-articulated drawings and diagrams that really illustrate the substance of each project utilizing varying techniques and levels of detail and complexity. The focus here is clearly to unpack the research and strategies that are the foundation of each project. In addition to individually analyzing each project, the book makes direct comparisons between all projects making useful and quick comparisons for properties such as area distribution, program, FAR, and populations.

The projects featured include New City Park, World Trade Center, NYC2012 Olympic Village, Penang Turf Club, Manzanares River Park Development, New Orleans Jazz Park, College Avenue Master Plan, East Darling Harbour Development, Los Angeles State Historic Park, NEW New Orleans Urban Redevelopment. Greenwich South Visioning and Pudong Cultural Park.

The neon-orange cover may require sunglasses during viewing but you'll always locate it on the shelf immediately.

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 Death by Architecture 2012-02-02T00:00:00Z Article / Infrastructure Landscape : Case Studies by SWA by Gerdo Aquino and Ying-yu Hung
 Death by Architecture 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z
Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of our rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent ecologies is a primary consideration. Defining contemporary infrastructure requires a multi-disciplinary team of landscape architects, engineers, architects and planners to fully realize the benefits to our cultural and natural systems. This book examines the potential of landscape as infrastructure via essays by notable authors and supporting case studies by SWA landscape architects and urban designers led by Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu Hung of their Los Angeles office. Among these case studies are Renzo Piano's California Academy of Science in San Francisco and Morphosis' Giant Group Interactive in Shanghai, the restoration of the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, and several master plans for ecological corridors in China and Korea. The case studies are thoroughly described with technical drawings and diagrams for repositioning infrastructure as a viable medium for addressing issues of ecology, transit, performance and habitat.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z Article / Winners of the Tallinn Vision Competition Street 2020 by Tallinn Architecture Biennale Death by Architecture 2011-08-05T00:00:00Z 2011-08-05T00:00:00Z
Warren Techentin Architecture(WTARCH)'s entry "Peer-to-Peer" received the €3000 1st prize of the Tallinn Vision competition STREET 2020, held under the auspices of TAB Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Tallinn Vision Competition STREET2020 was addressed to young architects and architecture students who were asked to describe a fluently connected, compatible and diverse urban landscape, with a focus on one particular urban typology: the street. The organizers received 35 competition entries, 34 of which qualified. Entries were submitted from Japan, Bangladesh, New-Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Poland, USA, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries.

The architects from WTARCH describe their winning proposal:

"Our concept is to develop a street which connects as many people and ideas as possible through the use of landscape strategies with a simple "user interface". This new Boulevard will connect the historic City to the beachfront, provides a strong edge to the port area, and seeks to unify the disparate existing but undefined open spaces into the collective use of the entire district as a large pedestrian park. The street will form a new entry to Tallinn for visitors and a place to enjoy the city outdoors with physical activity and street vending."

The jury, comprising Eva Castro (AA School, Plasmastudio, Groundlab, UK) and Endrik Mänd (Chief Architect, City of Tallinn), reflected on the winning entry with the following:

""Peer-to-Peer" investigates the problematic described in the competition brief in its entirety. The street that is described is in human scale and characteristic to Tallinn and the functions proposed on the sides of the street are well thought through and clever."

STREET 2020 exhibition presenting all the competition entries will open on August 17th at the basement hall of the Estonian Architecture Museum.

STREET 2020 awarding ceremony together with the catalogue presentation will be held during the Tallinn Architecture Biennale on September 8th at the Estonian Architecture Museum.

STREET 2020 AWARDED WORKS:

1st prize €3000 – pseudonym "Peer-to-Peer"

Authors: Warren Techentin Architecture (WTARCH): Warren Techentin, Brent Nishimoto, Christina Hwang, Andrew Kim, Ahad Basravi, Carrie Smith, Aaron Yip

2nd prize €2000 – pseudonym "The Urban Lobby"

Authors: Kenneth Li, Mark Craven, Fraser Moor

3rd prize €1000 – pseudonym "Street Magnetism"

Authors: Kristi Gri?akov (Aalto University Centre for Urban & Regional Studies), Liis Bormeister, Kristjan Männigo, Joonas Saan / OÜ Ars Projekt

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:

– pseudonym "Jack the Rabbit"

Author: Pawel Artur Pietkun

– pseudonym "Le Corb"

Authors: Joanna-Maria Helinurm, Michael Thomas Lamprides II

– pseudonym "Meter and Demeter"

Author: Alvin Järving

More information at STREET 2020: http://www.tab.ee/#competition

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 Death by Architecture 2011-08-05T00:00:00Z Article / GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011, April 15-17 by Columbia University Death by Architecture 2011-03-25T00:00:00Z 2011-03-25T00:00:00Z
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation announces their 2011 Alumni Weekend Event from April 15-17. Centered around the theme of "Smart Infrastructure: Negotiating the Future of Design", the event offers a weekend of networking, learning, and catching up with old friends over a series of panel discussions and receptions.

To register for Alumni Weekend, call 212.854.2834 or visit http://www.arch.columbia.edu/alumni/alumni-weekend-2011.

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SUMMARY OF THE EVENT (MORE INFO AT GSAPP WEBSITE)

ALUMNI KEYNOTE LECTURE:

Howard Slatkin '00MsUP, Director of Sustainability for the Department of City Planning, New York

Introduction by Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP

PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

1. Urban Infrastructure: Contemporary Investigations into City Politics, Futures, and Preservation

Kate Ascher, Adjunct Professor at the Wagner School at NYU

Styliani Daouti '05MsAAD, Founder and Principal at AREA (Architecture Research Athens)

Craig Dykers, Senior Partner/Director/Architect, Snohetta

Robert Lane '82M.Arch, Senior Fellow for Urban Design at Regional Planning Association; Partner, Plan & Process LLP

Deike Peters '95MsUP, Director, Urban Mega-Projects Research Group, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin and Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC

Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Moderator: David King, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University

AND

2. Communications Infrastructure: How New Media is Changing the Nature of Public Space

David Benjamin '05M.Arch, Director of the Living Architecture Lab, GSAPP

Frank Hebbert, Product Manager, Community Planning Tools, OpenPlans

Daniel Kidd '09M.Arch, Designer/Project Leader, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University

Shin-pei Tsay, director of the Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moderator: Troy Conrad Therrien, Creative Digital Consultant, Bruce Mau Designs

AND

3. Education Infrastructure: Discussing New York City's Biggest Developers of Mind and Land

Maxine Griffith, Executive Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University and Special Advisor for Campus Planning, Columbia University

Eve Klein, Associate Vice President for Planning and Design, New York University

Philip Pitruzzello, Vice President, Manhattanville Construction, Columbia University

Meghan Moore-Wilk, Director of Space Planning and Capital Budget, CUNY

Moderator: Carol Loewenson, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP

TOURS:

Tour NYC infrastructure: Bring your friends!

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

Gowanus Canal

Croton Aqueduct

Grand Central Station Terminal

NOTES:

NEW THIS YEAR: CES/Continuing Education Credits will be offered for Saturday's panels!

We will have alumni work displayed digitally on Saturday, April 16th. Please share images of your current work! The submission instructions are below:

» Please submit 3 images maximum, in TIFF or JPEG format.Minimum size is 5" x 7" at 200dpi, RGB color.

» Please keep your images below 5 mb each if sending by e-mail, otherwise submit them on a cd at under 10 mb each and send the cd by mail.

» You MUST name your files with the following format: Firstname_Lastname_program_year_01.tif,...02.tif, etc. (ie: Lindsay_Dorrance_AAD_81_01.tif)

» Be sure to provide the name and location of the work.

Please send your work to:

firstname.lastname@example.com

or

GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011

Attention: Lindsay Dorrance

404 Avery Hall

1172 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10027

Images will be shown looped in a display during the weekend. Some images may be edited or cropped for space. Improperly formatted images will not be used.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-03-25T00:00:00Z Article / Winner in "Place Lalla Yeddouna" Competition in Fez, Morocco Announced by Commune Urbaine de Fes Death by Architecture 2011-03-23T00:00:00Z 2011-03-23T00:00:00Z
Morocco, Fez: March 19th, 2011:

The winner of the International Design Project Competition for the Rehabilitation of Place Lalla Yeddouna in the Medina of Fes has just been identified: Mossessian & Partners, London/UK.

Task

The aim of the project is to revitalize Place Lalla Yeddouna, a public square and surrounding buildings at a central crossroads in the Medina of Fez, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The key objective is to revitalize the site and its surroundings, adapting modern distinctive architecture into an area that is full of tradition, vibrancy and functional diversity. Physically the site comprises small alleyways, a nicely shaped square with a tree, a river, a bridge dating from the 14th and 15th Century, some dilapidated buildings that will be replaced and others that are historically and architecturally significant and will be rehabilitated. In the future the area of Place Lalla Yeddouna shall serve as a vibrant mixeduse urban hub for the community as well as visitors to the Medina. The site is expected to become a major catalyst for artisan development, with spaces for educational programs, residences, artisan production, shops, restaurants, cafés and other services. The new complex must support activities for youth and adults.

Competition Procedure

Between August and October 2010, approximately 1,400 architects from all over the world registered at the Competition website and expressed their interest in the project. Delegations from more than 100 architectural firms visited the site on September 30, 2010. At the beginning of November 2010, approximately 175 competition entries had been submitted anonymously. In December 2010 the international jury, including representatives of the Prime Ministers' Office, the Ministry of Culture, the "Secrétariat d'État chargé de l'Artisanat", the "Wilaya de la Région Fès Boulemane », the "Commune Urbaine de Fès" and the "Commune Urbaine Méchouar Fès Jdid" and the Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes du Maroc selected the eight projects with the greatest potential for further development in the second phase of the competition – the finalists. These eight participants were sponsored to carry out the second phase of the competition.

Decision

On March 18, 2011, the jury chose the winner after an intense and open discussion. It was decided to allocate the following prizes, according to the competition rules:

1st prize: USD 55,000 Mossessian & Partners, London/UK Michel Mossessian with Yassir Khalil Studio, Casablanca/Morocco Yassir Khalil

2nd prize: USD 40,000 Ferretti-Marcelloni, Rome/Italy, Laura Valeria Ferretti, Maurizio Marcelloni and Bahia Nouh, Fez/Morocco

3rd prize: USD 25,000 Moxon Architects, London/UK Ben Addy with Aime Kakon, Casablanca/Morocco

Recommendation

The jury unanimously recommends the promoter of the competition to commission the team of authors of the project that was awarded the first prize with the services as stated in the competition brief.

Jury Members

The jury was composed of notable and experienced international architects with qualifications in Islamic architecture, the Medina of Fez, cultural and historic preservation, urban design, landscape architecture and project feasibility, as well as officials representing the Moroccan authorities and Ambassador Samuel L. Kaplan of the United States of America. The jury was supported by a number of local and international technical, environmental experts and social specialists.

The competition was managed by [phase eins]., Berlin (Germany).

Exhibition

An exhibition of all design proposals of both phases opens free of charge at the Palais des Congrès in Fez on March 20, 2011 at 8 p.m.. The exhibition will run until Wednesday, March 30, 2011 and is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 8 p.m. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-03-23T00:00:00Z Article / eVolo 2011 Competition Winners Announced by eVolo Magazine Death by Architecture 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z

eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose

ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.

The Jury of the 2011 edition was formed by leaders of the architecture and design fields including: Juan Azulay [principal Matter Management, professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture], CarloMaria Ciampoli [port director Live Architecture Network], Mario Cipresso [principal Studio Shift, professor at University of Southern California], Ted Givens [principal 10 Design], Eric Goldemberg [principal Monad Studio, professor at Florida International University], Jose Gonzalez [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute], John Hill [editor Archidose], Mitchell Joachim [principal Terreform

One, professor at New York University], Andrew Liang [principal Studio 0.10., professor at University of Southern California], Javier Quintana [principal Taller Basico de Arquitectura, Dean of IE School of Architecture], Rezza Rahdian [Architect, Second Place 2009 Skyscraper Competition], Michel Rojkind [principal Rojkind Arquitectos], and Michael Szivos [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute]. The Jury selected 3 winners and 32 honorable mentions. eVolo Magazine received 715 projects from all five continents and 95 different countries.

The first place was awarded to Atelier CMJN (Julien Combes, Gaël Brulé) from France for their 'LO2P Recycling Skyscraper' in New Delhi, India. The project is designed as a large-scale wind turbine that filters polluted air with a series of particle collector membranes, elevated greenhouses, and mineralization baths.

The second place was awarded to Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, and Xavier Schirr-Bonnans from France for a dome-like horizontal skyscraper that harvests solar energy, collects rainwater, and preserves the existing urban fabric at ground level thanks to its large skylights and small footprint. The recipient of the third place is Yheu-Shen Chua from the United Kingdom for a project that re-imagines the Hoover Dam in the U.S. as an inhabitable skyscraper that unifies the power plant with a gallery, aquarium, and viewing platform that engages the falling water directly.

Among the honorable mentions there are "waterscrapers" that clean oil spills and desalinate sea water, inverted skyscrapers for a floating Olympic villa, recycling towers, research skyscrapers that harvest lightning power, vertical cemeteries and amusement parks, sports skyscrapers, fish farms, and "living mountains" for desert climates. Other proposals use the latest building technologies and parametric design to configure environmentally conscious self-sufficient buildings.

eVolo Magazine would like to acknowledge all the competitors for their effort, vision, and passion for architectural innovation and the members of the Jury for their knowledge, time, and enthusiasm during the long review process.

eVolo Magazine is also pleased to announce the publication of a Limited Edition book (only 500 copies) that celebrates the sixth anniversary of the prestigious international Skyscraper Competition. With more than 3,000 projects received, we are showcasing the best 300 proposals from the past six years, including 2011, in a large-format hardcover book. Our goal is to edit a true gem of contemporary architecture printed in over one-thousand full-color pages.

For more information and to view all the winning and honorable mention receiving entries, visit http://www.evolo.us/category/2011/.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z Article / The New Holmenkollen Ski Jump by JDS Architects Death by Architecture 2011-02-23T00:00:00Z 2011-02-23T00:00:00Z
Press Release:

Along with Wimbledon's All England Club and the Wembly Arena, Holmenkollen Ski Jump is often cited as one of the world's most recognizable sports facility. Nevertheless it is one of the smallest hills in the World Cup tournament, and in September 2005, the International Ski Federation decided that the current hill does not meet the standards to award the city the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. In December 2005 Norway's Directorate of Cultural Heritage approved the demolition of the ski jump and in April 2007 the Oslo municipality announced an open international competition for a new ski jump. JDS Architects based in Copenhagen and led by Belgian-French Julien De Smedt, beat out 103 other firms and was awarded the commission the following year.

Working closely with city officials, JDSA established an office in the capital and collaborated with Norwegian engineering firm, Norconsult, to bring to fruition their elegant serpentine form that will become a beacon for the city and a new showcase for the sport of ski jumping. Rather than having a series of dispersed pavilions on site, their design unifies the various amenities into one holistic diagram. The judges booths, the commentators, the trainers, the royal family, the VIPs, the wind screens, the circulations, the lobby, the entrance to the arena and the arena itself, the lounge for the skiers, the souvenir shop, the access to the existing museum, the viewing public square at the very top, everything, is contained into the shape of the jump. The resulting simplicity of the solution improves the experience of the spectators and brings clear focus to the skiers.

The ski jump is clad in aluminum and glass and rises 58 meters in the air. It cantilevers an impressive 69 meters and on the first day of jumping tests; the record of the longest jump made at Holmenkollen was broken.

Atop the ski jump is a platform where visitors can take in some of the most breathtaking views of Oslo, the fjord and the region beyond. It's a new form of public space, using an unlikely architectural form as its host, affording the same spectacular vantage point for everyone who comes to Holmenkollen. The Lonely Planet agrees, the travel publication recently declared the new Holmenkollen Ski Jump as one of the ten top destinations to visit in 2011.

More information at JDS Architects.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-02-23T00:00:00Z Article / Interboro Partners Winner Of 2011 MOMA PS1 Young Architects by MOMA New York Death by Architecture 2011-02-17T00:00:00Z 2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

Press Release:

NEW YORK, February 16, 2011—The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome announce Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New York, and start, of Rome, as the winner of the first annual YAP_MAXXI Young Architects Program in Rome. Now in its 12th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year's winners to develop highly innovative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. For the first time, MoMA and MoMA PS1 are partnering with another institution, MAXXI in Rome, to create the first international edition of the Young Architects Program. Interboro Partners, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2011 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1's outdoor courtyard. stARTT has been chosen from among five European finalists to create an innovative event space in the MAXXI piazza. Both installations will open in June.

Interboro Partners' Holding Pattern brings an eclectic collection of objects including benches, mirrors, ping-pong tables, and floodlights, all disposed under a very elegant and taut canopy of rope strung from MoMA PS1's wall to the parapet across the courtyard. Creating an unobstructed space, the design incorporates for the first time the entire space of MoMA PS1's courtyard under a single grand structure, while creating an environment focusing on the audience as much as the Warm Up performance. A key component of the theme is recycling; objects in the space will be donated to the community at the conclusion of the summer. The designers met with local businesses and organizations including a taxi cab company, senior and day care centers, high schools, settlement houses, the local YMCA, library, and a greenmarket to determine what components of their installation could be used by those organizations following the Warm Up summer music series. Incorporating objects that can subsequently be used by these organizations is a means of strengthening MoMA PS1's ties to the local Long Island City community.

The other finalists for this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were FormlessFinder (New Haven, CT/Brooklyn, NY, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi), MASS Design Group (Boston, MA, Michael Murphy), Matter Architecture Practice (Brooklyn, NY, Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger), and IJP (London/Cambridge, MA, George L. Legendre). An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects as well as YAP_MAXXI's five finalists' proposed projects will be on view at MoMA over the summer. It will be organized by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Whitney May, Department Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

Mr. Bergdoll explains, "Simple materials that transform a space to create a kind of public living room and rec room are trademarks of this young Brooklyn firm. Interboro is interested in creating elegant and unpretentious spaces with common materials. Their work has both a modesty and a commitment quite at odds with the luxury and complex computer-generated form that has prevailed in the city in recent years. With a few gestures they transform parts of the city to achieve new temporary atmospheres and attract new participants."

Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large, adds, "MoMA PS1 is very excited about the innovative architecture of Interboro, which describes the famous MoMA PS1 courtyard as one architectural volume, especially since the YAP 2011 opening will coincide with the much anticipated opening of the new MoMA PS1 entrance kiosk by Andrew Berman Architects."

WHATAMI by stARTT is based on the manufacturing of an artificial archipelago-hill, generating smaller green areas in the garden and potentially outside the museum. The hill works as a garden, injecting "green" into the concrete plateau of the museum's outdoor space, allowing it to serve as a stage and/or parterre for concerts and other events, or as a space to rest and look at the museum itself. The artificial landscape will be punctuated by large "flowers" providing light, shadow, water, and sound. The materials proposed for the installation involve a two-fold recycling process, the supplying of the materials for the construction (straw, geo-textile, plastic) and the dismantling of the "hill" (turf, lighting).

Opened in May 2010, MAXXI was designed by Zaha Hadid and awarded Royal Institute of British Architect's (RIBA) Stirling Prize for architecture, and has already gained a place among the elite international contemporary art and architecture museums. The other YAP_MAXXI finalists were Raffaella De Simone/Valentina Mandalari (Palermo); Ghigos Ideas (Lissone/Mi, Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete and Francesco Tosi); Asif Khan (London, United Kingdom); and Langarita Navarro Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain, María Langarita and Víctor Navarro).

Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator of Architecture at MAXXI, explains, "We're very happy with the results of this program for three main reasons. First, the collaboration with MoMA proved as effective and productive as we hoped, finally allowing us a surprising insight into the most recent research in terms of architecture, public space, and landscape. Second, we were able to discover an unexpected positive quality of answers by the

Italian and European young (under 35) architects involved in the project, all proposing fascinating, innovative and well developed proposals. Third, we're delighted that we were able to choose a winning proposal which incorporates a MAXXI_specific approach to the issues of ecology, recycle, and public space."

http://www.interboropartners.net

http://ps1.org/

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 Death by Architecture 2011-02-17T00:00:00Z Article / BOOM: A Bold New Community by BOOM Communities Death by Architecture 2011-02-15T00:00:00Z 2011-02-15T00:00:00Z
Press Release:

boom is a new, master-planned community rising in the spectacular desert surrounding Palm Springs. At a cost of over $250 million, it changes America's idea of urban life. The brainchild of ten international architects, boom was conceived for the gay community but readily extends its embrace to all. boom is pedestrianoriented, culture-driven, and designed to inspire its residents to better themselves and others.

The architects range from the well-known - Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York - to such emerging stars as the Berlin-based Juergen Mayer H. Coordinating the project is Matthias Hollwich, of hollwich kushner in New York. The developer is boom Communities, Inc., a Los Angeles-based, real estate investment company formed in 1959.

The first phase of construction starts in 2012. 300 residences will be built in eight unique neighborhoods, each designed by a different architect. Pathways and plazas, set in a landscaped desert environment, connect to the social and geographic heart of boom: the entertainment complex, a boutique hotel, the gym+spa, and boom's wellness center. The health and wellness services cater to the health needs of all generations. Upon completion of Phase 2, boom will expand to over 700 residences.

boom is more than a revolution in design. In the twenty-first century, urbanism is not created by cutting-edge architecture alone. Social and communal engagement are vital. With www.boomforlife.com, designed by the renowned Bruce Mau Design, boom is growing its community online - now. This use of a website is ground-breaking when it comes to a new architectural project. Social media is being utilized to move participants from a virtual community to one constructed out of bricks and mortar.

The website allows boom's design team to collaborate with prospective residents, incorporating their ideas into the design of the boom community. These 'crowd sourcing' efforts also encourage boom members to shape the social programs and lifestyle for boom. When construction is completed, boom will already be a vibrant and functioning community.

See more at Architizer, http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/boom/17638/

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 Death by Architecture 2011-02-15T00:00:00Z Article / BIG Wins Competition to Design National Gallery of Greenland by BIG, TNT Nuuk, Ramboll Nuuk Death by Architecture 2011-02-10T00:00:00Z 2011-02-10T00:00:00Z
Press Release:

BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country's capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.

Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland's fjords, the 3000 m2 National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen?Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.

As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three?dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum's focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.

"The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and visually in harmony with the dramatic nature, just like life in Greenland is a symbiosis of the nature. We have created a simple, functional and symbolic shape, where the perfect circle is supplied by the local topography which creates a unique hybrid between the abstract shape and the specific location", Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Partner, BIG.

The slope opens up the sculpture garden towards the city and the view, framing both the sculpture garden and museum functions. A rough looking external façade of white concrete will patina over time and adjust to the local weather, while the circular inner glass façade will consist of a simple and refined frame which contrasts the rough nature and compliments the beautiful view.

" The building will with its simplistic coarseness and harmony with the landscape become a symbol of the current independent Greenlandic artistic and architectural expression.", Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner & Project Leader, BIG.

The circular shape of the gallery enables a flexible division of the exhibition into different shapes and sizes, creating a unique framework for the museum's art. Visitor access to the exhibition happens through a covered opening created by a slight lift in the façade into a lobby with a 180 degree panorama view towards the sculpture garden and the fjord as well as access to the common museum functions, including ticket counters, wardrobe, boutique and a café. The new gallery will create more activity at the waterfront by attracting the whole area is interconnected by a path which like the museum, forms after the shifting inclinations of the terrain. The locals and visitors will be able to admire the clear shape of the gallery which appears as a sculpture or a piece of land?art.

"Greenland National Gallery for Art will play a significant role for the citizens of Greenland and the inhabitants of Nuuk as a cultural, social, political, urban and architectural focal point that opens towards the city and the world through its perfect circular geometry and shape", Bjarke Ingels, Stifter & Partner, BIG.

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 Death by Architecture 2011-02-10T00:00:00Z